📈 2026 Budget Project Progress Under Secretariat Review Amid Delays

A high-level progress review of 2026 Budget projects and policy initiatives was conducted at the Presidential Secretariat to assess implementation bottlenecks and accelerate delivery. • Current Status & Delays: The review, chaired by Secretary to the President Dr. Nandika Sanath Kumanayake, focused heavily on addressing execution challenges and overcoming ongoing delays across ministry-level projects. • Sector Breakdown: Project evaluations spanned across a broad range of critical sectors, explicitly reviewing ministries handling finance, planning & economic development, digital economy, agriculture, livestock, land & irrigation, transport, highways & urban development, ports & civil aviation, and trade, commerce & food security. • Key Directives: Officials emphasized that closer inter-institutional coordination is mandatory to resolve outstanding bottlenecks. Expediting project timelines was highlighted as a shared responsibility to ensure public benefits from the 2026 Budget are delivered on schedule, as part of national efforts to boost public sector efficiency and implementation capacity.